Paula opens a package addressed to her husband. Inside is a tiny onesie and a letter with the words, “Our baby is due in two months.” But she isn’t pregnant.

Panic grips her. Is this a cruel mistake?

A twisted joke?

Or is her perfect life about to unravel in ways she never imagined?

Life has a way of testing us when we least expect it. Sometimes, it’s not the truth that hurts us but the stories we tell ourselves in the absence of it.

Mark and I had been together for 15 years and married for 13. We tied the knot when we were both 26, had two kids, and had weathered every storm together.